Sunday, June 30, 2024

Today's news: Hooray for Pride Parades!

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The happiest photos ever taken in Canada are from our Pride parades! Here are photos of Toronto's Pride Parade today: As ...
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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Animal Crackers!

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A Dog at the Museum, by Tom Mosser It's been one of those weeks, eh ... the Liberals lose the by-election, the Oilers lose the cup, Joe ...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Happy Saturday: from Reggie Jackson to Indigenous Peoples Day; from "shark!" to Dark Brandon; some great moments in Twitter; animal crackers; & some beautiful threads to enjoy

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Reggie Jackson describes the racism he had to endure when playing ball: 👉🏽 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can b...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Random Roundup: trying to kibosh the capital gains tax; trying to debunk misinformation; jousting over "likes"; hearing Dr. Fauci's story; and laughing at Trump

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Some interesting factoids and articles recently:  First, some comments on how Canada's rich people are trying to kibosh the Liberal plan...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Today's News: Heatwave!

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This summer's first heat wave is here. Over 135 million people are facing a dangerous heat wave this week with the AccuWeather RealFe...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Today's News: About the Foreign Interference Scandal, from May, Wark, Smith, and Scrimshaw

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So I've been sort of following the NSICORP (National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians) report revelations about ...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2024

80th anniversary of D-Day: "We will remember them"

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Too much going on this week to do a longer post, but here's some interesting stuff about D-Day and the 80th anniversary.   First, post...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Guilty X 34 = two solitudes in America

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In Canada in the 1940s, we were experiencing what we described as  Two Solitudes  between our French-speaking and English-speaking peoples: ...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

And on the lighter side!

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This is one of those weeks for me personally -- so here's some funny stuff to lighten the mood: First, some Poilievre makeup joke...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Great threads: from sculptures to libraries, from Curb Your Enthusiasm to Cow 88, from TikTok to Kermit (NEW: update on Cow 88)

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Here are some fascinating threads I have seen recently on Twitter - click to see all of the posts:  Amazing sculptures: 2. Melancholy,...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Into the long weekend: mosquitos and Poilievre and polls, oh my

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Ahh, summer is starting at last! MOSQUITOES! pic.twitter.com/wvHI7RLein — Brittlestar (@brittlestar) May 17, 2024 Moving on to something ev...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Today's News: Trump makes cowards of them all.

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The more I see of the Congressional Republicans, the more they remind me of The Sopranos. And anyone who doesn't fall into line gets sen...
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Monday, May 13, 2024

More writings about the Israel-Hamas War: Biden's dream, IDF goals, casualty statistics, Israel divestment

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I have seen several recent useful posts and comments about the Israel-Hamas War so I wanted to share them. First, an interesting analysis f...
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Happy Mother's Day and other comedy bits

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I liked this New Yorker cartoon -- says it all.  I also saw this thread on X and yes, I could appreciate this sentiment: Anyone who has ever...
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Monday, May 06, 2024

Today's news: the stupid, it burns!

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What a crazy week it has been -- we've all been sick with what I am calling the Black Death Cold, plus a family member fell and now has ...
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